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A Boy Named FDR: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Grew Up To Change America

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A Boy Named FDR: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Grew Up To Change America
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Author Kathleen Krull writes a very flattering biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s early life. The story stops just as Roosevelt enters politics. Krull begins by providing an introduction to...
 
 
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt

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A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
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Eleven year old Margo Bandini is so worried that her family and the families all around her may lose their homes and their jobs. It's the Great Depression...
 
 
Backtracked

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Backtracked
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Sixteen year old Tommy Latrella has a difficult time living up to the reputation of his older brother, a firefighter who died during the collapse...
 
 
Born and Bred in the Great Depression

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Born and Bred in the Great Depression
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A young boy remembers the stories his father told him about he and his family living through the great depression. No matter how rough it got there is...
 
 
Boys of Steel:  The Creators of Superman

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Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
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Has there always been a Superman? It seems that way but the true story is Superman was born from the imaginations of two guys,...
 
 
Children of the Great Depression

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Children of the Great Depression
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In this stunning photo-documentary, Russell Freedman takes an unflinching look at America’s Great Depression and its smallest and youngest victims. Upper elementary and secondary students today, many of whom...
 
 
Don't Forget Winona

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Don't Forget Winona
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In the 1930's Oklahoma was a Dust Bowl and struggling families had to pick up all their worldly possessions and strike out to begin their lives again. Told...
 
 
Eleanor, Quiet No More

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Eleanor, Quiet No More
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There are some women from our past who need to be part of our present and our future. Eleanor Roosevelt is one of them. She had a father who...
 
 
Leah's Pony

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Leah's Pony
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After a good harvest, Leah's parents buy her a pony. However, the next year a severe drought sets in, and the crop fails, causing the bank to foreclose...
 
 
Magic Tree House Series, Book 36: Blizzard of the Blue Moon

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Magic Tree House Series, Book 36: Blizzard of the Blue Moon
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In this exciting new Merlin Mission, Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression....
 
 
On the Blue Comet

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On the Blue Comet
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What if Cinderella had been a boy? And instead of living with his ugly stepsisters, he had to live with his awful Aunt Carmen and his cousin, Willa...
 
 
Poor Is Just A Starting Place

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Poor Is Just A Starting Place
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It's the 1930's in Kentucky and the Great Depression is stealing hopes and dreams. Twelve year old Artie Wilson lives on a farm in the hill country and...
 
 
Spuds

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Spuds
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Ma's been working so hard, she doesn't have much left over. So her three kids decide to do some work on their own. In the dark of night, they...
 
 
Storm in the Barn

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Storm in the Barn
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Eleven-year-old Jack is trying to grow up in the times of the Dust Bowl. His father is beaten and weary and thinks Jack is incompetent and useless. ...
 
 
The Century for Young People: 1906-1936: Becoming Modern America

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The Century for Young People: 1906-1936: Becoming Modern America
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Respected journalists Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster partner up to introduce young people to the past in this first volume of the new Century for Young People series. Covering...
 
 
The Luck of the Buttons

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The Luck of the Buttons
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Tugs is good at reading and good at running, which keeps her ahead of the Rowdies gang in their small Iowa town in 1929. Independence Day is next week,...
 
 
The Midnight Palace

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The Midnight Palace
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon will make you feel like you are being told a story around a campfire with his shadowy tale of two twins that...
 
 
The Wonder of Charlie Anne

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The Wonder of Charlie Anne
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Living on a farm in the midst of the Great Depression means that times are hard, especially for Charlie Anne and her family, who recently lost their beloved mother....
 
 
 
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